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Offer good through December 31,2000. www.museumshop.com 26 THE NEW YORKER, DECEMBER II, 2000 GALLERIES -UPTOWN Unless otherwise noted, galleries are open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from around 10 or 11 to between 5 and 6. MARY CASSATT A lovely show of more than tw"o hundred previ- ously undiscovered prints and drawIngs by the only American formally invited to join the Im- pressionists. Cassatt's primary subject was moth- ers and children, and her best work is tender with- out being mawkish. As if to encourage viewers to consider Cassatt in a fresh light, the show opens not with these familiar domestic scenes but with a shadow world-a series of soft-ground etchings portraying dimly lit, solitary figure reading or attending the opera. Cassatt's gifts as a printer were exquisite, and the show offers a rare oppor- tunity to compare several states of the same image, as a green dress in "Gathering Fruit," for example, shifts from turquoise in one print to a delicate apple green in the next. Through Dec. 22. (Adel- son, 25 E. 77th St. 439-6800.) ENRI9UE MARTINEZ CELAYA This Cuban-born Californian's paintings seem almost Teutonic in their dreamy romanticism. Most depict a pale nude youth, a sort of latter-day Young Werther who wanders through moonlit birch forests or wades into dark waters in the rain. Is this, one wonders, what the catalogue essay means by "the estrangement of visibility from the sensible"? Only the spare elegance of Martinez Celaya's images, painted on swaths of black velvet, staves off their rendezvous with bathos. Through Dec. 22. (Galería Ramis Barquet, 41 E. 57th St. 644- 9090.) GEORGE TOOKER / BEN SHAHN Since his conversion to Roman Catholicism, in 1976. Tooker's work has become increasingly sacramentaL Gone are the paranoid subway scenes of the fifties, with their trenchcoated lurkers. Tooker now paints closeups of handsome youthful figures, often nude, asleep, or cradling infants. One of the most striking pictures depicts Tooker himself, a sable brush in his hand, being patted on the head by a benign, hunky angeL Rendered in a style that descends from Fra Angelico's, Tooker's icons of homoerotic piety have a rare and lovably mild innocence. / Small ink drawings, in Shahn's blotchy, barbed-wire line, of strikers, Fascists, and politicians. It's a surprise to find, among the last, a rather sweetly pensive version of Joseph Mc- Carthy. Both shows through Dec. 29. (DC Moore, 724 Fifth Ave., at 57th St. 247-2111.) CY TWOMBLY A triumphant procession of canvases-"one paint- ing in ten parts" -by a master of cryptic lyricism. Inspired by an Egyptian Pharaoh and titled "Coro- nation of Sesostris," the cycle opens with a scrawled pictograph of a blood-red sun on a white ground and culminates in a barge shape carrying stick fig- ures that could be flowers, flags, or oarsmen. The mood shifts from tranquil to majestic to elegiac as Twombly dabbles with a palette of crimson, purple, and yellow. Some canvases are punctuated by the artist's characteristically illegible script; others are shrouded in veils of color as translucent as mist. Through Jan. 26. (Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave., at 76th St. 744-2313.) Short List SUE COE Galerie St. Étienne, 24 W. 57th St. 245-6734. Through Jan. 6. RICHARD DIEBENKORN Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, 730 Fifth Ave., at 57th St. 445-0444. Through Dec. 9. MARK MAHOSKY Rickards, 1045 Madison Ave., at 79th St. 924-0R5R. Through Dec. 20. JOAN MIRÓ Salander-O'Reilly, 20 E. 79th St. 879-6606. Through Jan. 6. Jill MOSER Ganz, 25 E. 73rd St. 535-1977. Through Dec. 14. GEORGE NICK Fischbach, 24 W. 57th St. 759-2345. Through Dec. 23. GALLERIES -CHELSEA DAMIEN HIRST The Brit-pack gang leader's last New York show was decidedly underwhelming; Hirst has clearly decided not to let that happen again. Everything about this exhibition is determinedly spectacular, from its square footage to its gargantuan budget and run-on title: "Theories Models. Methods, Approaches. Assumptions, Results, and Find- ings." The outcome is a cross between a science museum, a morgue, and a slasher-movie set. The artist has filled eleven vitrines with skeletons, med- ical instruments, tropical fish, laboratory diora- mas, and, as a leitmotiv, Ping-Pong balls levitating on electric blowers-Hirst's symbol for the ran- domness, or perhaps the fragility, of life. Towering above it all is "Hymn," a twenty-foot bronze en- largement of an anatomical model, with cheerfully polychromed entrails. Few of the show's individual components carry much metaphorical weight, but there remains something fund mentally pleasing ahout the spectacle of a sImple: obsession so mas- sively indulged ("I just want to find out about rot- ting," Hirst has said). Through Dec. 16. (Gagosian, 555W.24thSt.741-1111.) SUE WilLIAMS Williams, once just about the angriest woman in the art world, has now completed her decade- long metamorphosis into a sort of blissed-out innocent. Her new paintings are pure aerobic ab- stractions, with big loops and scribhles of red, yellow, and blue on white grounds. Splashes and drips are kept to a minimum; so is any kind of design impulse. The results have an utterly limber, volatile grace, like an ice-skater doing warmup exercises or a graffiti artist loosening his arm. De Kooning, at the end of his life, became the Fred Astaire of this kind of kinesthetic calligraphy; Williams could almost be his Ginger Rogers. Through Dec. 16. (303 Gallery 525 W. 22nd St. 255-1121.) Short List POLLY APFELBAUM D' Amelio Terras, 525 W. 22nd St. 352-9460. Through Dec. 23. SO HYUN BAE Skoto, 529 W. 20th St. 352-8058. Through Dec. 9. BROOKIE MAXWEll Gallery 138, at 138 W. 17th St. 633-0703. Through Dec. 14. GALLERIES -DOWNTOWN ANDREW FO'RGE A near-comically gaunt and gracious Englishman, Forge is best known as a teacher and a writer (of lavish. discerning books on Monet and Degas). Lately, his own paintings have been getting some deserved attention. To caU them Pointillist land- scapes doesn't quite capture their methodical odd- ness. It's true that their scattered touches of bright color generally coalesce, at a distance, into recog- nizable images-a row of saplings, for example, or a huge, backlit tree trunk. Rather than reprising Seurat, however, Forge's works seem like a sort of rural Op art, full of polychromatic flickerings that quietly tantalize the eye. Through Jan 6. (Studio School, 8 W. 8th Sr. 673-6466.) IICOlLECTOR1S CHOICE II Exit Art sent eight collectors on an imaginary shopping spree for contemporary art, with a budget of fifty thousand dollars per patron (at times interpreted with irrational exuberance: one